Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“The Trump administration had a meeting with all its top national security staff, except Trump, planning a war against the Houthis on an unsecured system. They also managed to unknowingly include a senior editor/reporter from Atlantic magazine in the meeting. … If something like this had happened under Biden, there is no doubt that heads would roll. The people responsible for setting up the meeting (Defense Secretary Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in this case) would surely lose their jobs. In fact, there is a good chance that everyone at the meeting would lose their jobs. … they would be mercilessly trashing ‘Sleepy Joe’ for not even bothering to show up at a meeting where his administration was planning a war on another country and putting US troops at danger.” (04/01/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/01/five-alarm-fire-on-signalgate/